Nordstrom, Inc. is an American upscale department store chain founded in 1901 in Seattle, Washington. It operates Nordstrom full-line stores, Nordstrom Rack off-price stores, and a large e-commerce business, selling apparel, shoes, accessories, cosmetics and home goods. In May 2025 the company was taken private in an approximately $6.25 billion deal led by the founding Nordstrom family together with Mexican retailer El Puerto de Liverpool, and it was delisted from the NYSE.